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Such is the strength of the ant's jaws that, in East Africa, they are used as natural emergency sutures. Various East African indigenous tribal peoples (e.g. the Maasai moran), when suffering from a laceration in the wilds, will use the soldiers to stitch the wound by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the gash, then breaking off the body.
Tetraponera penzigi is a species of ant of the subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae, which can be found in East Africa. It forms an obligate symbiosis with the whistling thorn acacia ( Vachellia drepanolobium ), a dominant tree in some upland areas of East Africa.
D molestus is an East African surface swarm raider army ant. The species is important to its ecology; it supports myrmecophile fauna, especially east African birds that attend its raids and depend on the ants' presence in their habitat.
Vachellia drepanolobium, more commonly known as Acacia drepanolobium or whistling thorn, [1] is a swollen-thorn acacia native to East Africa. The whistling thorn grows up to 6 meters tall. It produces a pair of straight spines at each node, some of which have large bulbous bases.
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Melissotarsus is a rare African genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. [3] They are known from the Afrotropics and Malagasy regions, where their nests are located in living wood, built by tunneling through the wood under the bark. They are rarely seen outside of their nests, which may contribute to their perceived rarity. [4]
Plectroctena mandibularis, called the ringbum ant or millipede munching ant [1] [2] [3], is a large species of ant that ranges from the Eastern Cape, South Africa, through East Africa to Ethiopia. Their workers forage singly [ 4 ] in open terrain, and their colony size seldom exceeds fifty individuals.
Camponotus fellah is a species of carpenter ant found across the Middle East and North Africa. This species was formally described by Dalla Torre in 1893. A C. fellah queen holds the record for Israeli ant longevity, surviving for 26 years (1983-2009) in a laboratory environment.